June 1st - October 1st

PRS: New Music 20x12 deadline: 1 October 2010

New Music 20x12 

deadline: 1 October 2010

The PRS for Music Foundation (PRSF) has launched its new Cultural Olympiad music programme, New Music 20x12.

New Music 20x12 will support 20 12-minute, specially-commissioned works of music to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The selected works will premiere in 2012 and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Winning composers and musicians will also benefit from networking and professional development opportunities.

A panel of experts, chaired by Roger Wright – Controller BBC Radio 3 and Director of the BBC Proms – will be announced later this year. Music organisations, festivals, ensembles, promoters and venues from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are invited to submit ideas for new work, in any musical genre, that they would like to commission from a UK-based composer by Friday 1 October 2010.

For information on New Music 20x12 and how to apply visit www.prsformusicfoundation.com/newmusic20x12.

July 13th - September 12th

Exhibition: THE THE THINGS IS (FOR 3) @ the MKG ends 12 Sept

Milton Keynes Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of work by a London-based artist who emerged in the early 1990s, exhibiting with Gavin Brown at City Racing in London and collaborating with artists including Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Wright and Paul Noble.

Working with sound, performance, sculpture, collage and photography, the artist creates narratives or systems which are played out in the form of installations, interventions and live events.

The artist’s practice often precipitates unexpected contradictions and humorous outcomes, playfully experimenting with language, image, form and identity. In an early piece Be Me presented at Interim Art, London (1996), thirty-one friends and acquaintances were invited to assume the artist’s persona for the day and to exhibit the results. For Went to America didn’t say a word (1999), the artist travelled to New York, stayed overnight and returned home, without uttering a word. The sounds that surrounded the journey were recorded by mini-disc and presented as a sound work at Space in London.

Interests in displacement and exploiting surprising situations are channelled into an ongoing sound performance Violin Siren (2004- present) where street noises, such as police sirens, are transcribed onto classical musical instruments.

The exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery contains three new installations and a sculptural piece that wraps around the exterior of the building. ANOTHER ANOTHER RING OF BALLS (2010), is a row of found magazine pages pasted around the walls of a room, each page containing a circular image, arranged in order of size. WOMAN MAN MAN WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN MAN MAN 1975 GEORGE M. HESTER, (2010) presents a series of pages from a book with black and white images of nudes on a light box so that the paper disappears and the back and front of the pages merge to create hermaphrodites.

Other work will combine performance, sculpture, objects and installation, inviting visitors literally to leave their mark: a denim carpet wrapped around the building records the footprints of visitors as they walk through the space and a fully functioning rock band’s equipment is set up, live, and ready to play.

Opening Times
Tuesday – Friday 12noon – 8pm, Saturday 11am – 8pm, Sunday 11am – 5pm, closed Mondays.

Admission free.

August 13th - September 13th

The Stani Gallery's Art Exhibition at The Galleon

The Stani Galleon sets sail in The Garden Room with Cool Art and Hot Jazz !

The Stani Gallery is delighted to announce a new permanent art exhibition in The Garden Room of The  Galleon at Old Wolverton Road in Old Wolverton beginning on Friday 13^th August from 7 - 10 pm.

The Galleon pub/restaurant has been extensively refurbished, is easily accessible and has free front and side car parking.

The exhibition will initially feature Trevor Jeavons and Tina Ashton until Monday 13^th Sept ; and will then involve different artists from The Stani Gallery  displaying their work on a monthly basis.

To mark the launch of the exhibition,  Good Time Jazz consisting of Trevor Jeavons and Friends, will play New Orleans style jazz throughout the evening.

So Come and Join us ....... Relax and Enjoy Art, Music, Food & Drink !

August 16th - September 9th

Singing is fun with Music Makers of Milton Keynes

Singing is fun for everyone and everyone can enjoy singing with the Music Makers of Milton Keynes. With several concerts already planned for the Autumn & Winter of 2010, those who want to sing and those who can sing are welcome, whatever their background and ability.

Daniel Allen has taken up the post of Musical Director and together with accompanist David Meek, singers will be learning new songs for all seasons.  The next opportunity to perform with the Music Makers will be in concert with Secklow Brass and Friends on Saturday, 9th October at Stantonbury Campus Theatre, 7.30 pm.

We know how hard it can be coming to your first rehearsal, so if you would like, we will arrange for you to be paired up with a buddy to help you settle in.  If you'd like to be part of the society but would rather not sing, then we always need people to help out with front of house, refreshments, playing the piano and all the other essential things that help the society to function.

So if you've been simply singing in the shower or thinking about singing in the rain this summer, it's time to Rehearsals start again in September, on a Thursday evening at the Children's Centre in Stony Stratford.  Find out more today from Garry Winder (Chair) on 01908 563199 or visit http://mmmk.org/rehearsals.php

August 17th - September 30th

Myth, Science, Nature, Life

Throughout August and September
The Library, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
(Open 8.30am-6.30pm Monday-Thursday, 8.30am-5pm Fridays. Visitors to the University will need to sign in at the library reception)

“My work explores the use of line and space to describe nature and the body – combining
my interest in drawing, and how line can depict form, with the spatial presence and materiality
of sculpture.

I am inspired by the connections and dichotomies between our contemporary understanding of the world through science (particularly physics and quantum physics), and how our ancestors related to the world through narrative, ritual and the creation of mythologies.

What is perception? What is reality?”

Linda Johns

Exhibited works:

Iris II - stainless steel and copper wire
Forest IV - line drawing
Forest III - line drawing
Forest II - line drawing
Forest I - line drawing


Linda will give a talk about her art practice in the Library Presentation Room, 9th September, 12.30-1.30pm (Free, all welcome)

Linda also runs drawing and sculpture workshops - see http://www.lindajohns.com/workshops.htm for details.

August 17th - October 26th

I (heart) DANCE - STREET DANCE @ BROUGHTON MK -ADULTS AND KIDS!

Sleek dance presents....

I ♥ DANCE!

2 fantastic NEW 10 week street dance classes for young people and adults from Broughton and surrounding Milton Keynes areas.
...
Childrens classes start on WEDNESDAY 4th Aug 6 - 7 pm
ADULTS CLASSES - START 8th august 6-7pm

Classes are with Leigh West from Sleek Dance MK.

Over TEN WEEKS, you will learn 3 street routines which will then be performed in Broughton to family, friends and passers by....

If you wish to come along please write on the event wall or call Leigh on 07743417010

CLASSES ARE £3.50 per session - or you can pay an up front DISCOUNTED fee of £30.00

there will be a 2 week break on the 8th and 15th of September

COME ON PEOPLE - LETS BIG UP BROUGHTON!!!